Concealed flowers

Concealed flowers

In China, child sexual assault cases have remained high over the years. Since 2014, there have been more than 300 cases of sexual assault on children (under the age of 18) publicly reported by Chinese media alone every year.

In April 2020, during the outbreak of China’s COVID-19, Bao Yuming’s sexual assault on juveniles was a sensation throughout the country. Sina Weibo’s hot search ranked first in that days, and the number of readers who read the hot debate was hundreds of millions of times. There were a lot of people in the commentary about their sexual assault in childhood.

As the initiator, I gathered lawyers, psychological counselors and humanities scholars to launch an art project on juvenile sexual assault. In the whole project, lawyers provide legal aid and legal consultation for the victims, and psychological counselors provide psychological consultation for the victims, which are provided to the victims free of charge.

We have collected the materials of people who have experienced sexual assault in the past two years（from 2020 to 2021）. We have collected the materials of Victim through Sina Weibo, Douban, etc (both men and women, women are the majority), and some victims participated in our project. After informing other people with similar childhood sexual assault experience to participate in our project. At the same time, we also signed letters of authorization with the victims.

We have collected hardly more than 30 Victim-volunteers who are willing to stand up and provide materials to us. From the collected materials, most of the people who commit sexual assault are acquaintances, including teachers, stepfathers, cousins, cousins, uncles, and strangers. The categories of sexual assault also include rape, obscenity, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, exposure, peeping, etc, Because the victims are minor, some of them don’t even know what happened when they were infringed. Many accidents were encountered during the collection process, and many victims suddenly disappeared after providing half of the material, but we still insisted on doing it until now.
We do not intervene, but present it completely according to the wishes of the victims. We try to explore the psychological problems left after trauma encountered in the process of modernization in China, and the changes and effects of the victims ‘ psychological process during and after the whole event. We present the psychological changes and what has happened to the victims in the form of images, ready-made art, sounds and installations, Part of the photos were taken by me according to their wishes, and some parts by the victims themselves which I just gave composition and other technical suggestions. To protect privacy, I recommend that they take photos that do not reveal their facial features and photos of objects or physical details that they feel are emotionally linked. Finally, I combined these two photos. More importantly, we want to make people pay attention to the current living conditions of the witnesses and the impact of trauma on them through these forms, hoping to arouse people’s inner kindness and zero tolerance towards this behavior, And hope to strengthen the importance of sex education for the next generation in adolescence.

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In China, Since 2014, there have been more than 300 cases of sexual assault on children (under the age of 18) publicly reported by Chinese media alone every year.
In April 2020, during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, Bao Yuming’s sexual assault on daughter’s case caused a sensation throughout the country. As the initiator, I Initiated an art project on childhood sexual assault from 2020 to 2021. I have collected the materials of Victims through Sina Weibo, etc.
I have collected hardly more than 30 Victim-volunteers who are stand up and provide materials to us. I found most of the perpetrators are acquaintances, including teachers, stepfathers, cousins, etc. The categories of sexual assault also include rape, obscenity, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, exposure, etc.
I do not intervene, present it completely according to the wishes of the victims. I try to explore the psychological problems left after trauma encountered in the process of modernization in China, and the changes and effects of the victims ‘ psychological process during and after the whole event. More importantly, I want to make people pay attention to the current living conditions of the victims and the impact.